Wedding customs in the Czech Republic

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Today fiancées can decide whether they get married in church and have religional wedding or have institutional wedding at the townhall or somewhere else. It’s fashionable now to say „I do“ in some special places – chateaux, castles, gardens, expositions of museums or mountains. During communist era 29 years ago it was mandatory only at town halls. Now is usual that for all the preparations and programm during wedding is hired specialized agency.

Many customs are same in our country as in the rest of world so I will point out the ones which I think that may differ.

Abduction of the bride
During wedding reception and when the guests are entertaining and dancing someone asks bridegroom for the dance or disturb him someway so he doesn’t pay attention to his bride. Meanwhile some other guests realize abduction of the bride and they took her to some other restaurant. It can also be in other village but not very far. When groom realizes that he starts to search for her (much easier now in time of mobiles). When he finds her he has to do some task of abductors, mostly to bring them bottle of alcoholic drink, and then also pay the bill in the restaurant.

Reception
When „just marrieds“ with their guests arrives from the ceremony to reception their are welcomed by a drink – in one glass is pure water in the other vodka, who choose vodka the one will have decision word. The bride and her man have to eat soup from one plate and they feed each other, because one plate is „by mistake“ broken and married couple should tidy the pieces together. It is said that the pieces of broken china means happiness in their marriage. We can also find differences between the ceremony in town and village there are also regional differences. The weddings are usually smaller, music is played from PC. At the village wedding can be over hundred guests and music is played by live band or folk group with such instruments as violin, bass, accordion, clarinet and dulcimer (this instrument is typical for eastern part of the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Roumenia). People at village wedding bring cakes and sweets baked by them. At the reception desk are salso often dish from home pig-slaughtery – goulash,brawn, blood sausages etc.
Unfortunatelly, many couples live together without marriage although they breed children in last years .

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